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Is That A Camera in Your Pocket? Tips and Tools for MobilePhonetography As Part of Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Carry your camera phone around and snap impromptu photos of your #nonprofit. Mobile phone cameras that have touch screen allow you focus with your fingers. And it is those limitations that help you focus on your subject. Use images in every communication #21CapitalCamp. GuideStar USA (@GuideStarUSA) October 8, 2013.

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Blame the Crowd, Not the Camera: Challenges to a New Open Photo Policy at the National Gallery

Museum 2.0

For the first time, the National Gallery is permitting non-flash photography. A swarm of cameras everywhere. Reading Michael''s posts carefully, it seems that the cameras are not the ultimate culprits. Cameras weaponize an already unwieldy mob of people. You can''t not see their camera. Get rid of the cameras.

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Three Photo Editing Apps to Try Right Now

Tech Soup

In honor of the Storymakers kick-off, I tested out three brand new (to me) photography apps for iOS and Android smartphones. VSCO Cam (Android, iOS; free) is similar to Faded in that it gives you both camera controls and post-production editing tools. VSCO Cam's strengths are in its camera controls. Which was my favorite?

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How to Choose Diverse and Inclusive Photos

Forum One

The more we showcase real people of all kinds in our photography, the more engaged our audiences will be in the content we create, and the more inclusive our culture will become. Committing to choose and create photography that features different types of people and represents them as equals can already change our culture for the better.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An excellent source of images is to take them yourself with your digital camera or mobile phone camera. If you practice some the basic photography rules , you should be able to DIY some good images for your content strategy.

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More Effective Nonprofit Websites in 2 Simple Steps (part 2)

NetWits

Photography that uses eye contact will allow you to make a personal connection with your user. For example, which would better share the amazing impact Habitat for Humanity has on the community – an image of 5 volunteers building a Habitat Home with their backs to the camera? Or the eyes of the man for whom the house was built?

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Amazing AI Images for Impact: AI Generators for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Just imagine what that would look like taken by a 35mm camera and boom! A picture is worth a thousand words. What if you didn’t need a highly trained designer every time you needed an image for an article or report?

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